188 Indian Economic Entomology. [Vol. I. 



transparent, veins fuscous, immaculate : body beneath with feet yel- 

 low, unguicula fuscous. Long, 5 mill. 

 Hab. Baliganj, Calcutta. 



Idiocerus clypealis, Lethierry. 



Journ. As. Soc. Calc, 1889, p. 252. 



6", $ . Small, flaveseent : vertex yellow, or immaculate, or with 

 two small lateral spots (one on each side), black : frons yellow, or imma- 

 culate, or with^two black, small, median spots : clypeus yellow, always 

 with a narrow median streak, broader at the base : pronotum yellow, 

 immaculate : scutellum yellow, with an obtusely triangular black spot on 

 both sides at the base : tegmina yellow, shining ; veins concolorous ; the 

 costal veins of a rather lighter yellow, inwards in the middle very nar- 

 rowly bordered black ; body beneath yellow, with a rather large, black 

 lateral spot on the presternum : feet with unguicula, yellow. Distin- 

 guished by the markings of the clypeus. Long, 3| mill. 



Hab. Calcutta. 



Cotton Post. 



In February last Mr. E. E. Green, of Punduloya, Ceylon, sent me a 

 small Lygaeid which, he states, infests the ripe pod of the cotton, dis- 

 coloring and caking the cotton. I find it is the Oxycarenus lugubris t 

 described some thirty years ago by Motschulsky. 



Ojycarenus lugubris, Motschulsky. 



Stenogaster lugubris, Motsch., Et. Ent. viii, 1859, p. 108. 

 Oxycaremis lugubris, Stal., En. Hem., iv, 1874, p. 141. 



Elongate-ovate, above depressed, subopaque, black, humeral spot on 

 hemelytra, sides thereof very narrowly eoxse, last tibiae in the middle and 

 tarsi more or less whitish : head elongate, triangular, closely rugosely 

 punctured : thorax closely and deeply punctured, somewhat convex, 

 anteriorly attenuated, constricted in the middle : scutellum triangular, 

 punctured in rows obliquely : hemelytra complete, subrugulose : abdomen 

 shining, impunctate, last segment in <$ canaliculate in the middle, first 

 iemora clavate, beueath with long spines, last joint of the antennae sub- 

 claviform, second shorter. Long, 1£ — If ; broad, £ — f-". 



Hab. Ceylon 



Ceroplastes, sp. 



Some twigs and leaves of tea from the Kangra Valley were submitted 

 to me for examination through \he Museum. The twigs !iad adhering 



